A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London
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When you have no other Light to work by, but that of a Candle, observe to place between the Light, and the Figure you wou'd Copy, a Lawn Frame, or an oil'd Paper, or at least a piece of plain Paper unoil'd, provided it be very fine and thin; the Shadows being by this means softned, their extremities will not appear too abrupt and cut off.